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A Tour Of - 'Colonels Crossing & Benson'
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 Posted: 23 Apr 2015 02:09 pm
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 Great shots Peter!

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 Thanks Alwin, I'm glad you approve.



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 Good looking engine, nice weathering job on it



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 Thank you George, I must admit I rather like the SD45's they look very powerful to me. I have tried to make it look as if she had been pulled out of a mid train helper set.

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 Every so often I give all my fleet of locomotives a check over and a bit of a run.
This geep was one of the first road switchers I bought some twenty odd years ago and it runs as sweetly now as it ever did.
It is a Blue Box Athearn that I have chopped the nose on, the fiction being it was re-built in the fictional Interstate & Western's workshops at Rosston to a full GP 18 specification.

In the following sequence I&W #6 is seen arriving at Benson with a train of empty pulpwood flats, then laying over at the west yard engine facilities.
Having seen the amount of debris left on the deck of real pulpwood flat cars I added some sawdust on the models to replicate the real thing.















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 The model featured this time is a Mopac EMD SW1200 end cab switcher made from an early Athearn BB kit with added details. I know the fuel tank is not quite right it should extend downwards and outwards more. Also I have now seen a colour photograph of an actual Mopac switcher and the trucks on some examples at least are the same colour as the body.
I have gone back in time as well in order to use some freight cars with roof walks that don't often get an airing. I bought these years ago when I first got into modelling the American scene. They are a mix of Bachmann ready made and Athearn shake the box kits.
It is assumed the SW1200 brought the train in from Pine Bluff via the SP interchange.










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 More great photos, Peter :2t::2t:



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 Broadoak wrote:
Thank you George, I must admit I rather like the SD45's they look very powerful to me. I have tried to make it look as if she had been pulled out of a mid train helper set.

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Yup, she looks like a real brute, all power and business but some how in an elegant way.



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 Thanks gentlemen there are a few more photos to come of this set.

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 I always enjoy seeing your pictures Peter. Nice stuff!



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 Thanks Ken, I appreciate that.

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 Posted: 20 May 2015 02:56 am
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 I have been given a CD of photographs taken when Colonel's Crossing was still connected to Benson before being dismantled a few years ago. The photos were taken by my old buddy Andy Knott who is also the owner of the eastern road locomotives featured later.





The first two show a bankruptcy blue Rock Island SW1500 #947, an Athearn BB with added details rolling past the depot then the grade crossing at CC.







TVRR Alco RS1 trundles over Colonel's Creek with a covered SF hopper in tow. The John Deere van driver is keen to get to his next job.
The RS1 and train are now clear of the crossing so the JD van driver sets off to repair a broken down tractor at a farm nearby.

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 Wonderful photos Peter



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 Thanks Dwyane, but my old buddy Andy Knott took the photos, I just supplied the coffee and the layout.

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Another couple of shots of the bankruptcy blue SW1500 #947.





Here we have another RI SW1500 # 942 this time wearing an earlier livery rolling over the grade crossing. Then at rest under the heavy lift equipment at the small engine house.

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 A few more photos of Colonel's Crossing this time with a guest locomotive, a D&H Alco RS36 #5023 seen in the yard and passing the depot.










An aerial view looking down the yard from the tunnel end, bottom left. This originally hid the fiddle yard. The picture gives an idea of the track layout.

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D&H Alco RS36 #5023 standing on the team track by the Farmer's Coop elevator while the crew take a break for beans.



The Alco RS36 is working a cut of bauxite ore cars through the loader. The brakeman takes the time to roll a cigarette.



An aerial view of the Alco as she pulls the cut of ore cars through the loader.



D&H Alco C424 #452 about to collect a cut of loaded ore cars.

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